UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve · can
Waterton Lakes National Park
- Area
- 565 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1979
Overview
- Designation
- UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
- Established
- 1979
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 942 distinct species · 171 034 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Waterton Lakes National Park : 23 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 9 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
122,7km
Lake surface here
11,99km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
3 437km²
Discharge in basins
7,7m³/s
Mean precip.
599mm/an
Mean T°
2,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,18
Max snow
52%
Mean runoff
352mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 659m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Blakiston Creeksub-area159,2 km²overlap145.42 km²26%
- Bassin de Waterton Riversub-area392,6 km²overlap137.90 km²24%
- Bassin de Waterton Riversub-area403,8 km²overlap108.03 km²19%
- Bassin de Belly Riversub-area1 268,8 km²overlap75.58 km²13%
- Bassin de Lee Creeksub-area331,7 km²overlap69.78 km²12%
- Bassin de Saint Mary Riversub-area1 337,4 km²overlap17.04 km²3%
- Bassin de North Fork Flathead Riversub-area2 083,5 km²overlap8.76 km²2%
- Bassin de Drywood Creeksub-area296,6 km²overlap2.52 km²0%
- Bassin de Sage Creeksub-area226,8 km²overlap0.08 km²0%
Lakes (9, top by area)
- Upper Waterton Lakearea12,6 km²avg depth32.5 m
- Lower Waterton Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Cameron Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth22.0 m
- Lac 983149area0,3 km²avg depth8.9 m
- Lac 982243area0,2 km²avg depth7.5 m
- Lac 982315area0,2 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 983712area0,2 km²avg depth9.2 m
- Lac 983148area0,1 km²avg depth10.8 m
- Lac 982285area0,1 km²avg depth6.1 m
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Waterton Riverord 5len here25.75 km14%total186 km
- Blakiston Creekord 2len here21.70 km100%total22 km
- Cameron Creekord 3len here19.22 km74%total26 km
- Lee Creekord 2len here19.16 km26%total73 km
- Bauerman Creekord 2len here11.47 km100%total11 km
- Belly Riverord 5len here8.46 km3%total256 km
- North Fork Belly Riverord 2len here6.43 km40%total16 km
- Hell-Roaring Creekord 3len here4.07 km100%total4 km
- Lineham Creekord 2len here2.78 km28%total10 km
- Lone Creekord 1len here2.53 km100%total3 km
- Roberts Creekord 1len here0.42 km9%total5 km
- Street Creekord 3len here0.41 km7%total6 km
1 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 49.09820, -113.99039
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.